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In The Mailbox: 11.14.16

Posted on | November 14, 2016 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Rule 5 Monday will be posted about an hour after this goes up, which is to say about 2100 Pacific Time.


OVER THE TRANSOM
A View from the Beach: What To Make Of This Election?
EBL: Milo As Trump’s Press Secretary?
Twitchy: Watch Local Traffic Reporter Give Hillary Supporters Directions To Canada
Louder With Crowder: SNL Savages NY Liberals Watching The 2016 Election


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Culture Is Race
American Power: Why Did CBS Sit On Clip Of Trump Telling Supporters “Quit Harassing Minorities”
American Thinker: The Electoral College Is Brilliant
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye Blue Monday
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – No Man’s Land by David Baldacci
Da Tech Guy: #NeverTrump Needs To Shift Immediately To #TrustButVerifyTrump
Don Surber: Catholics Elected Trump
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Welcome To New Canada
Jammie Wearing Fools: Woman Arrested For Driving Drunk Over Four Times The Legal Limit Blames Trump
Joe For America: 3 Million Votes In Presidential Election Cast By Illegal Aliens
JustOneMinute: Great Moments In Slacktivism
Pamela Geller: Blocks Of Anti-Trump Protest Buses Caught On Tape #Soros
Power Line: Democrats – Vicious, Violent, Anti-Democratic, also, Freaks At The EPA Freak Out
Shark Tank: Trump Doubles Down On 60 Minutes
Shot In The Dark: Your Own Private Wilderness
STUMP: On Intellectual Humility – Post-Mortem Of The Polls And Models
The Jawa Report: PacketSled Slides CEO Matt Harrigan To Administrative Leave, also, Evil Plants Foil Global Warming
The Lonely Conservative: Well, Here’s A Little Bit Of Good News
The Political Hat: Triangle Of Oppression
The Quinton Report:
This Ain’t Hell: What Sort Of Government Is It That You Believe You Want?, also, Spontaneous Demonstrations? Yeah, Right.
Weasel Zippers: Oregon Bully Ken Avakian Who Took Down Christian Bakery Tossed Out Of Office By Election, also, Seven “Sanctuary Cities” Vow To Battle Trump Over Issue
Mark Steyn: Clinton Dynasty Massive Storewide Clearance!


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Category: Linkagery

Vox Day Channels Sam Francis’s Ghost

Posted on | November 14, 2016 | 2 Comments

Vox Day argues that “conservatism has not only failed, it was always doomed to eventual failure by virtue of its very nature”:

It was an attitude and a defensive posture, not a coherent ideology or an identity, and it lacked positive objectives, so it never had any hope of resisting the relentless ideological onslaught of the Left.
And the concept of America as a proposition nation is not only historically false, it is logically and empirically untrue.

This is very much in line with what the late Sam Francis argued in his 1997 book Revolution from the Middle. Rather than attempting to summarize either Sam’s argument or Vox Day’s argument, instead I’ll say this: The Democrat Party is about people, the Republican Party is about ideas.

Democrats target specific blocks of voters — black people, Hispanics, homosexuals, labor union members, etc. — and say, “Vote for us and we’ll give you free stuff, and tax the rich to pay for it.” Republicans, by contrast, stand for a few basic ideas, in particular a strong defense, economic liberty and cultural traditionalism. This is what has been called the “three-legged stool” of GOP policy. To explain the weaknesses of the Party of Ideas in its battle with the Party of People would require far more time and space than I’m willing to give it now. One of the GOP’s weaknesses, however, is that the conservative intellectual leadership has a bad tendency toward overthinking stuff, which is where the “proposition nation” nonsense came from. Rather than to defend the interests of the Republican Party’s voter base, which has been fed up with illegal immigration for more than 20 years, the brainiacs like George Will wanted to make an argument on behalf of multicultural diversity without using those words, and thus “proposition nation” was born.

Intellectual abstractions do not win elections. Politics requires an appeal not merely to people’s sentiments, but also to their interests. The American people understand at an instinctive level that we’ve got too damned much immigration, and too damned much welfare, and too damned much government, generally. We cannot afford the government we’ve got — which is $20 trillion in debt — and yet Democrats say we need even more government. Why? Because “free stuff,” that’s why.

The federal government cannot even do its most basic tasks (i.e., protect the nation’s borders) and yet Democrats want to ignore this failure and instead have the government take over the health-care business and give every kid a “free” college education. Who’s gonna pay for all this stuff? Hint: Not José and Juanita who just got smuggled over the border. No, the “rich” are going to pay the taxes, and so if your household income is over a certain limit — maybe $75,000 a year, maybe $100,000 a year — you’re going to get soaked with federal taxes, to pay the salaries of bureaucrats running social welfare programs to “help” the poor. Welfare “helps” poor people the way another fix helps a junkie, but never mind that argument. The point is, the federal government has become an enormous criminal enterprise, defrauding taxpayers in the name of “social justice.” Somehow, liberals have convinced themselves that José and Juanita have a “right” to get free stuff paid for by the American taxpayer, despite the fact that (a) José and Juanita are not Americans, and (b) they’re breaking the law merely by being here. And if you don’t agree with the idea of giving free stuff to foreigners, well, you’re a racist.

Nobody likes to be called a racist, especially not intellectuals with advanced degrees from fancy private universities, and so we have a lot of allegedly “conservative” pundits who have decided they don’t want to defend the interests of the middle-class American taxpayer.

They’re gutless little crapweasels, these pointy-heads with their cleverly worded arguments for the “proposition nation.” And if Donald Trump does anything during his tenure in the White House, I hope he’ll call out these cowardly sell-outs by name, starting with David Brooks. Honestly, I’d make David Brooks persona non grata at the White House — ban that son of bitch, and if he tries to sneak into a press conference, have the Secret Service guys tase him, pepper-spray him and maybe give him a few good kicks to the head, just for good measure. But I digress . . .

We do not have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. The basic formula of GOP conservatism is sound, but it has not been articulated with sufficient clarity in recent decades because there are too damned many cowardly David Brooks types in the conservative intelligentsia. We will not defeat the Left if we are led by people who turn tail and run the minute some liberal calls them a racist:

Being against Democrat policies is always wrong, according to Democrats and their friends in the media.Their arguments are basically about calling you names — sexist! racist! homophobe! — for disagreeing with them.

You can read the rest of that at The Patriarch Tree.



 

Category: Intellectuals

However, If It’s True . . .

Posted on | November 14, 2016 | 2 Comments

The editors of the gay publication The Advocate think it’s controversial that Steve Bannon described feminists accurately:

Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Stephen Bannon, reportedly referred to students at the Seven Sisters colleges as “dykes” during a 2011 interview. . . .
Bannon . . . told Political Vindication Radio that women like Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, and Michele Bachmann “threaten the progressive narrative,” as BuzzFeed reports.
“That’s why there are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement,” he continued. “That, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.”

Now, until the late 1960s, when the formerly all-male Ivy League schools went coed, the “Seven Sisters” — Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College — were extremely prestigious. Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush were both Smith alumna, for example, as was Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell. However, when the Ivy League schools began admitting women, these elite women’s colleges lost much of the rationale for their existence. And at just the moment when this happened, the radical Women’s Liberation movement burst forth onto the culture scene. The prevalence of lesbianism at the Seven Sisters had long been a subject of salacious rumors that the schools had sought to suppress, but by the late 1970s, the lesbians were out and proud. Given the notorious anti-male feminism that is now the regnant orthodoxy at these women’s colleges, the question is why any heterosexual girl would want to attend the “Seven Sisters.”

Consider, for example, Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Mass., which has not one but three gay organizations on campus:

  • OUTreach is the umbrella LGBTQIAP+ student organization that aims to promote unity in the queer community through connecting with various groups both on and outside of campus.  We hope to serve as a resource for LGBTQIAP+ students, as well as a catalysts for change on campus by combating transphobia, misogyny, transmisogyny, ablism, racism, lookism, islamophobia, and other sources of oppression within our communities through critical discussions and intergroup organizing. OUTreach strives to create a safe, confidential space that fosters community building.
  • Femmepowered is an LBTGQA+ org that seeks to dismantle misogyny on campus by creating space and visibility for femme-identified people in the queer community. We welcome all sexes, genders, gender presentations, and sexual and romantic orientations. We believe that femme identities inform and are informed by other identities and can be performed in a multitude of ever-changing and personal ways.
  • FAMILIA is a closed network of support and activism for LGBTQ+ people of color at Mount Holyoke College.

Are there any organizations at Mount Holyoke for heterosexual women? None that I’m aware of. If there are any heterosexual women at all at Mount Holyoke, they’re being mighty quiet about it, and the same is more or less true at Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Smith, etc. If someone tells you their daughter goes to Bryn Mawr, they’re telling you their daughter is gay.

“Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” I hasten to add.

 

If your daughter has a high GPA and doesn’t like boys, and you don’t mind spending about $65,000 a year to send her to college, then Bryn Mawr ($48,790 annual tuition, $15,370 for room and board) would be an excellent choice. Your daughter could study Gender and Sexuality at Bryn Mawr, and take courses like “Movies and America: Queer Cinema” (HIST B284) and “Queering Popular Culture” (HIST B325). And, of course, your daughter will learn to vote Democrat, because Republicans are even rarer at Bryn Mawr than heterosexuals. Of course, you could save money by letting your lesbian daughter go to a state university instead, but the reason you send her to Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke or one of the other Seven Sisters colleges is because it costs $65,000 a year to teach girls to hate Christianity, capitalism and men (not necessarily in that order).

 

Category: Gays, Sex Trouble

Feminist Roxane Gay Declares: ‘We Have to Get White Women in Order’

Posted on | November 14, 2016 | 6 Comments

 

A bestselling feminist author told a national conference that “dismantling patriarchy” requires that women must stop listening to white men.

“We have to get white women in order,” Roxane Gay said Friday at the Facing Race conference in Atlanta. “Until women are less invested in what white men think, we aren’t dismantling patriarchy.”

A professor of English at Purdue University, Gay is the author of Bad Feminist, a 2014 New York Times bestseller that is assigned reading in many university Women’s Studies programs. She was a keynote speaker at the Facing Race conference, organized by an anti-white group called Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. The organization’s partisan nature was revealed in a Nov. 9 statement responding to Donald Trump’s election by calling it “the worst outcome we could have imagined . . . a stunning victory for racism, misogyny, homophobia, and vengeful authoritarianism.”

Open expressions of hatred toward white women have become common among Democrat activists since the election because of exit polls showing that a majority (53%) of white women voted for Trump. Ms. Gay’s anti-white remarks at the Atlanta conference were quoted on Twitter by former Ebony magazine senior editor Jamilah Lemieux, who since the election has changed her Twitter handle to “Atone, White Women!”

 

Category: Election, Racism

Democrats Surrender to ‘Fear Itself’

Posted on | November 13, 2016 | 4 Comments

 

Republicans are celebrating Happy Fun Victory Week with such amusements as video of Democrats saying Donald Trump would never be president. Democrats, meanwhile, are surrendering to despair. Now that the election is over, liberals are just beginning to notice the extent of losses Democrats have suffered at the state level during the Obama Era:

Let’s be frank. After this week’s electoral explosion, liberalism faces years in the wilderness. It’s not just that the president-elect is Donald Trump. It’s that a Democratic Party that as recently as Monday imagined it had forged an electoral coalition sufficiently solid to stand for decades now lies in shambles. In 2018, the party must defend an astonishing 25 seats in their Senate caucus, many of them in states that Trump carried. “It’s going to be a disaster,” said one Democratic strategist — and that was back when people thought Hillary Clinton was a shoo-in. Republicans control a record 69 of 99 state legislative chambers, and wound up with at least 33 governorships, the most since 1922. In short, the Democrats’ exile is likely to be lengthy.

It would be a stupid blunder for conservative, however, to think that the current “shambles” of the Democrat Party means we’re on our way to the Permanent Republican Majority once envisioned by Karl Rove. Such complacent hubris is exactly how the Bush era ended in political disaster — voters handing Congress over to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s Democrats in 2006, Barack Obama winning the presidency in 2008. Both the Trump administration and GOP leaders in Congress will have to work hard — and be smart — to retain the support of the 60 million Americans who voted Republican on Nov. 8.

Well, these sober-minded reflections should not dampen our good cheer, and Happy Fun Victory Week means we can enjoy the schadenfreude of watching liberals in agony over their unexpected defeat.

This post-election IUD panic is insane — a consequence of Democrat propaganda during the campaign, as I explain in my latest column:

Back in 1984, when I was a young Democrat, I voted for Walter Mondale for president, and wasn’t happy that he lost. Back then, however, we didn’t have Twitter or Facebook, so we couldn’t instantaneously broadcast our expressions of despair to the world. Old folks back then (I was 25) didn’t give a damn about my opinion, but now every young kid with a laptop can play Internet pundit and they’re pushing the panic button: “OMG! Trump! Get an IUD before it’s too late!”
Who told you this? Where did this absurd meme originate? Didn’t your parents warn you against believing everything you read on the Internet? Was it true, as Gabriella Paiella of New York Magazine told readers mere hours after Hillary conceded defeat, that “everyone” was urging women to get IUDs? No, it started with Erin Gloria Ryan, who majored in English at Notre Dame, Class of ’05, and hit the panic button Nov. 2, before Election Day. . . .

Read the whole thing at The Patriarch Tree. Once upon a time, a Democrat told America that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now the only thing Democrats offer America is . . . fear itself.



 

 

Category: Contraceptive Culture, Democrats, Planned Parenthood, Sex Trouble

Hillary Finds Her Scapegoat

Posted on | November 13, 2016 | 4 Comments

 

This was predictable:

Hillary Clinton on Saturday cast blame for her surprise election loss on the announcement by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server.
In her most extensive remarks since she conceded the race to Donald J. Trump early Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton told donors on a 30-minute conference call that Mr. Comey’s decision to send a letter to Congress about the inquiry 11 days before Election Day had thrust the controversy back into the news and had prevented her from ending the campaign with an optimistic closing argument.
“There are lots of reasons why an election like this is not successful,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a donor who relayed the remarks. But, she added, “our analysis is that Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.”
Mrs. Clinton said a second letter from Mr. Comey, clearing her once again, which came two days before Election Day, had been even more damaging. In that letter, Mr. Comey said an examination of a new trove of emails, which had been found on the computer of Anthony D. Weiner, the estranged husband of one of her top aides, had not caused him to change his earlier conclusion that Mrs. Clinton should face no charges over her handling of classified information.
Her campaign said the seemingly positive outcome had only hurt it with voters who did not trust Mrs. Clinton and were receptive to Mr. Trump’s claims of a “rigged system.” In particular, white suburban women who had been on the fence were reminded of the email imbroglio and broke decidedly in Mr. Trump’s favor, aides said. . . .

You can read the rest. Hillary’s claim is both true and false. On the one hand, it is certainly true that the FBI letter caused renewed attention to the former Secretary of State’s email scandal. My Oct. 30 headline was “SHOCKING: TRUMP SURGES IN POLL; HILLARY DOOMED BY F.B.I. PROBE?” On the other hand, blaming FBI director Comey is wrong, because this implies that Hillary was innocent of wrongdoing, when it is plainly evident that the whole purpose of her private email server was to allow her a secret way to conduct business that benefited the Clinton Foundation. She deliberately tried to evade federal law and she got caught, period. Her attempts to create an “innocent” explanation of the email scandal were classic Clintonian deceit.

The real problem is that, like all other Democrats, Hillary Clinton believes very deeply in her own moral superiority. Being a liberal means being on the side of the angels, every Democrat believes, and this sense of political righteousness endows them with a certainty that nothing they do can ever be wrong. Democrats believe they are good people — smarter and better than everybody else — and they are working for a good cause, and therefore the rules don’t apply to them. This mentality makes Democrats very dangerous, because what is morality without rules?

Well, she lost, and so we’ll be spared the experience of seeing her prove what a bad president she would be. What the future holds in a Trump presidency, I don’t know, but the Clintons are history. Thank God.



 

 

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Category: Election, Hillary Clinton

FMJRA 2.0: Happy Fun Victory Week

Posted on | November 12, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday
Regular Right Guy
Animal Magnetism
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny

Bad Habits: Cocaine and Feminism
The Political Hat
EBL@RedState

FMJRA 2.0: As Falls Wichita…
The Pirate’s Cove
BlurBrain
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

‘If You Don’t Want to Swing with the Ape-Man, Baby, Stay Out of the Jungle’
The Political Hat
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

‘I Had Felt Out of Place Among Girls for Quite a Few Years at That Point’
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

Polls Say Hillary Will Win, So Democrats Don’t Actually Need to Vote for Her
EBL@RedState

Transgender Children: Toxic Moms and Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.07.16
Proof Positive

$3,000,000: Federal Jury Punishes Rolling Stone for UVA Rape Hoax Story
Living In Anglo-America
EBL@RedState

Hate, Lies and ‘Social Justice’
EBL@RedState

It’s Not Illegal Yet
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: Election Day 2016
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

TRUMP WINS!
Thinking Man’s Zombie
EBL@RedState

Terry McAuliffe’s Pyrrhack Victory
EBL@RedState

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.09.16
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

Exit Polls: Hillary Clinton Defeated by Homophobic White Racist Patriarchy
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

#NotMyPresident Protests and Talk of Secession After Democrats Lose Election
EBL@RedState

At Yale University, Special Snowflakes™ Are Traumatized by Republican Victory
The Lonely Conservative
Of Wolves And Men
EBL@RedState

Did We Just Witness A Colossal Mindfsck?
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.10.16
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

Laci Green (@gogreen18) Is a Lying Atheist Democrat, But I Repeat Myself
EBL@RedState

The Blunders of Hillary’s Campaign
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

Parents: Warn Your Children Not to Apply to George Mason University
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.11.16
Proof Positive

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL@RedState (25)
  2.  Proof Positive (6)
  3.  (tied) A View from the Beach and Regular Right Guy (5)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


Category: FMJRA Award

Couple O’ Shots O’ Joe

Posted on | November 12, 2016 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

Hasn’t been worth the last eight years, but Biden has been great comic relief.

Category: humor
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